Hillary Clinton appeared triumphant as she delivered a not-so-subtle response to her former political rival Donald Trump’s guilty plea in a criminal trial.
—Is something happening today? she said with a wry smile as she took the podium at the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards in Washington, DC, shortly after the jury reached its verdict in Trump’s hush money trial.
His audience immediately responded with applause and laughter upon catching his apparent reference to the trial in Manhattan, and Clinton assured them, “Well, I have to tell you, there’s no place I’d rather be than here.”
Dubbed “Corrupt Hillary” by Trump during his 2016 election campaign, the former Democratic candidate is likely feeling vindicated after Trump became the first former president convicted of a crime in US history.
After the jury returned its verdict, a cocky Clinton took to Instagram to mock her former opponent, sharing a photo of a product emblazoned with the slogan “turns out I was right about everything.”
Hillary Clinton appeared triumphant as she responded to her former political rival Donald Trump’s guilty plea in a criminal trial.
The white mug features a cartoon of Clinton sipping some tea, with the former Secretary of State explaining in the caption: “We recently made some new products based on a phrase I hear a lot.” The design was finalized today.
Clinton advertised the ceramic mug, which sells for $22, as “a great cup for drinking tea.”
He promoted it to his followers by saying that proceeds from its sale would go to “defending democracy” through his nonprofit Onward Together.
The former First Lady founded the political action group after losing to Republican candidate Trump in the 2016 election.
During campaign rallies, Trump called Clinton “totally guilty” and his supporters chanted “lock her up” after she became embroiled in a political scandal over her use of a private email server for classified emails.
After a years-long FBI investigation, it was determined that its server did not contain any information or emails that were clearly marked as classified, although many were later designated as such retrospectively.
Trump, now running for president for the third time, has also been pushing his merchandise, and fundraising efforts have accelerated after his guilty verdict was handed down yesterday.
Republican Trump and Democrat Clinton were rivals in the 2016 presidential election
Clinton had a wry smile as she discussed the verdict at the beginning of her speech at the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards.
After the verdict was announced, attendees reported an immediate flood of contributions so intense that WinRed, the platform the campaign uses to raise funds, crashed.
The campaign began selling black caps with the slogan “Make America Great Again” to reflect a “dark day in history.”
Speaking outside the court after the verdict was pronounced, Trump declared: “I’m a very innocent man and it’s okay, I’m fighting for our country.” I’m fighting for our constitution.
‘Our entire country is being manipulated right now. This was done by the Biden administration to hurt or injure an opponent, a political opponent.
‘I think it’s just a shame. We will continue fighting, we will fight until the end and we will win.
“There is only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box.” Donate to our campaign today,” Biden said on social media after the verdict.
Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump reacts as the verdict is read in his criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records to conceal money paid to hush porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, at Manhattan State Court in the city from New York, USA May 30, 2024 in this courtroom sketch
As Democrats celebrate the guilty verdict, major Republican donors have joined Trump in pledging millions of dollars to support the first convicted felon to run for president of the United States.
Many conservative donors already saw the New York case, which Trump accused of falsifying business records to hide a money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, as political persecution.
His supporters echoed Trump’s claim that the trial was designed to weaken him ahead of the Nov. 5 election against President Biden, claims that prosecutors have dismissed as false.